Regular Sports Participation as a Potential Predictor of Better Clinical Outcome in Adult Patients With COVID-19: A Large Cross-Sectional Study

{ 'indexed': {'date-parts': [[2022, 3, 30]], 'date-time': '2022-03-30T03:52:49Z', 'timestamp': 1648612369654}, 'reference-count': 60, 'publisher': 'Human Kinetics', 'issue': '1', 'content-domain': {'domain': [], 'crossmark-restriction': False}, 'short-container-title': [], 'published-print': {'date-parts': [[2021, 1, 1]]}, 'abstract': '<jats:p><jats:bold>Purpose</jats:bold>: To compare the severity outcomes of COVID-19 disease ' 'between patients with and without regular sports participation. ' '<jats:bold>Methods</jats:bold>: In a cross-sectional study, the authors investigated all ' 'patients who visited the emergency department of Imam Khomeini hospital with signs and ' 'symptoms of COVID-19 from February 20 to April 20, 2020. Then the authors assessed all ' 'patient outcomes (outpatient vs hospitalization or death). Finally, the authors compared the ' 'outcomes between athletes with regular sports participation and others, adjusting for ' 'confounding factors of age and sex. <jats:bold>Results</jats:bold>: Of all 4694 adult ' 'patients, 249 individuals (137 males and 112 females with mean [SD] age of 36.45 [9.77]\xa0y) ' 'had regular participation in different sport disciplines. Overall, 30 (12%) athletes were ' 'hospitalized or died (30 and 0, respectively) compared with 957 (21.5%) nonathletes (878 and ' '79, respectively). Athletes with regular sports participation were 1.49 times less likely to ' 'be hospitalized (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.044). ' '<jats:bold>Conclusions</jats:bold>: Regular sports participation may positively affect the ' 'clinical outcome, regardless of confounding factors of age and sex. The probability of ' 'hospitalization in athletes with regular sports participation was 33% lower than nonathletes. ' 'However, more longitudinal studies are needed to determine the causal effects.</jats:p>', 'DOI': '10.1123/jpah.2020-0392', 'type': 'journal-article', 'created': {'date-parts': [[2020, 12, 1]], 'date-time': '2020-12-01T15:28:16Z', 'timestamp': 1606836496000}, 'page': '8-12', 'source': 'Crossref', 'is-referenced-by-count': 5, 'title': [ 'Regular Sports Participation as a Potential Predictor of Better Clinical Outcome in Adult ' 'Patients With COVID-19: A Large Cross-Sectional Study'], 'prefix': '10.1123', 'volume': '18', 'author': [ {'given': 'Farzin', 'family': 'Halabchi', 'sequence': 'first', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Reza', 'family': 'Mazaheri', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Khashayar', 'family': 'Sabeti', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Masoud', 'family': 'Yunesian', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Zahra', 'family': 'Alizadeh', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Zahra', 'family': 'Ahmadinejad', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Seyed Mojtaba', 'family': 'Aghili', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Zahra', 'family': 'Tavakol', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}], 'member': '100', 'container-title': ['Journal of Physical Activity and Health'], 'original-title': [], 'link': [ { 'URL': 'https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jpah/18/1/article-p8.xml', 'content-type': 'text/html', 'content-version': 'vor', 'intended-application': 'text-mining'}, { 'URL': 'https://journals.humankinetics.com/downloadpdf/journals/jpah/18/1/article-p8.xml', 'content-type': 'unspecified', 'content-version': 'vor', 'intended-application': 'similarity-checking'}], 'deposited': { 'date-parts': [[2021, 2, 5]], 'date-time': '2021-02-05T07:14:31Z', 'timestamp': 1612509271000}, 'score': 1, 'resource': { 'primary': { 'URL': 'https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jpah/18/1/article-p8.xml'}}, 'subtitle': [], 'short-title': [], 'issued': {'date-parts': [[2021, 1, 1]]}, 'references-count': 60, 'journal-issue': {'issue': '1'}, 'URL': 'http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0392', 'relation': {}, 'ISSN': ['1543-3080', '1543-5474'], 'issn-type': [{'value': '1543-3080', 'type': 'print'}, {'value': '1543-5474', 'type': 'electronic'}], 'subject': ['Orthopedics and Sports Medicine'], 'published': {'date-parts': [[2021, 1, 1]]}}